Titus Schade’s work explores painting and its visual space. With sets that resemble backstage areas, he creates spaces that lie somewhere between models and scenography. Schade thus imagines a range of architectural forms and furnishings that take the viewer into a private world. Schade does not seek to replicate reality, but uses an array of surrogates that he reorganises in his self-contained environments. He uses baroque lighting set-ups with his forms and structures, which are usually of an architectural nature. In his work, classical landscapes coexist with geometric forms whose timelessness allows for a universal reading.